HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mammoth ]VeW WoodWoriting Machinery Plant. 



with this no«- institution is the work of F. H. 

 Clement, chief of construction. For the past 

 thirty-five years Mr. Clement has been ac- 

 tively engaged in the manufacture of wood- 

 working machinery and the burden of build- 

 ing the new shops fell upon his shoulders. 

 A few words outlining his active career will 

 be of interest. 



Frank H. Clement was born at Parma, 

 jSr. Y., June 26, 1843, and is of English 

 lineage, the ancestry of the family being 

 traced back to Robert Clement, who in 1638 

 left his native England and in his owb ves- 

 sel sailed for Haverhill, Mass., becoming the 

 progenitor of the family in the new world. 



During the past three years the An 

 Woodworking Machinery Company has been 

 engaged in the erection of a mammoth and 

 up-to-date plant for the production of wood- 

 working tools at Rochester, N. Y., which is 

 the headquarters of the company, and will 

 hereafter be counted its principal point of 

 manufacture. 



As will be remembered, the American 

 Woodworking Machinery Company, which 

 was incorporated in 1901, took over by pur- 

 chase the following plants located in the East 

 and Middle West: F. H. Clement Company, 

 Glen Cove Machine Company, Ltd., Hoyt & 

 Brotlier Company, Levi Houston Company, 



What grew to be an extensive business had 

 its beginning in 1871 in the establishment of 

 a small jobbing machine shop by Mr. 

 Clement and a partner, Thomas L. Turner, 

 under the style of Turner & Clement. They 

 continued business together until 1877, when 

 Mr. Clement purchased his partner's interest 

 and became sole owner of the business. From 

 time to time he was forced to increase his 

 facilities in order to meet the growing de- 

 mands of the trade. The manufactured 

 product included saws, planers, boring ma- 

 chines, lathes, etc., such as were necessary 

 in the manufacture of furniture, chairs, car- 

 riages, wood patterns, cars and agricultural 



^W UOCIIESTER WORKS A*IEKICAN WOODWORKING MACHINERY COMrANY. 



Globe -MacOiine Company, Lehman Machine 

 Company, Milwaukee Sander Manufacturing 

 Company, C. B. R,ogcrs & Co., Rowley & 

 Hermance Company, Williamsport Machine 

 Company and Young Brothers Company. 



Undeniably this company is now the largest 

 producer of woodworking tools in the world, 

 and under the able management of President 

 J. E. McKelvey has made a most enviable 

 reputation for turning out high-class machin- 

 ery, which has greatly expedited the develop- 

 ment of one of the foremost industries of the 

 country. L\imbermen as well as remanufae- 

 turers of lumber, will surely be interested in 

 a brief description of the mammoth and 

 model new institution at Rochester," wliich is 

 to be devoted exclusively to the production of 

 tools for their use, and it is therefore with 

 pleasure that the Record |)resents a series of 

 views of this plant, together with a short 

 description of its various departments. 



Especially to be commended in connection 



In his boyhood days Mr. Clement remained 

 upon his father's farm and when he had 

 mastered the studies taught in the public 

 schools, attended Parma Academy and 

 Rochester Collegiate Institute. For two years 

 he engaged in teaching, but his natural pre- 

 dilections led him into the field of mechanics 

 and he displayed particular interest in draw- 

 ing and engineering. Becoming a resident 

 of Rochester in 1863 he entered the employ 

 of D. A. Woodbury & Co., builders of steam 

 engines, with whom he remained for five 

 yo:irs. workiiiL' his way upward until he be- 

 nd draughtsman. In 1868 he 

 I.I the position of inspector of 

 -1 ' li-r the Twenty-eighth Congres- 



sional Disliict and served in that capacity for 

 a year. At the expiration of that period he 

 joined W. S. Loughborough in forming a 

 partnership as solicitors of patents at Roches- 

 ter, but failing health caused him to direct 

 his energies into other ch-innels. 



implements. Still greater facilities were de- 

 manded in 1890 and in that year the brick 

 buildings now occupied by Henry Likly & Co. 

 were erected on L'yell avenue, adjoining the 

 Erie Canal. The Frank H. Clement Company 

 was incorporated in 1891 and for many years 

 Mr. Clement was its president and manager. 

 In the meantime the products manufactured 

 had increased both in variety and in volume 

 until in 1892-93 seventy different machines 

 were listed, and the trade not only covered 

 the United States, but extended to foreign 

 lands. Mr. Clement was the mechanical and 

 business head from the start, having made all 

 the original designs, supervised the construc- 

 tion of all work and until 1891 attended per- 

 sonally to the details and correspondence of 

 the office. 



In 1897 the business of the Frank H. 

 Clement Company was merged into the Amer- 

 ican Wood Working Machinery Company, to- 

 gether with eleven other important wood- 



